The Tree with No Name

Janez Lipnik, an archivist in Ljubljana, comes across two sets of papers: the recollections of Aleksij Grgurević, a serial lover whose international career as a seducer began in Slovenia during the Second World War, and the memoir of Ivanka K., a simple nurse at a psychiatric hospital. His curiosity soon goes far beyond the usual. He searches the archive, then his own distant memories, and finds that his schoolteacher Zala, whom he loved as a boy after the war, was the lover of the Home Guard officer Aleksij. Unpleasant memories of his own father, a survivor of Auschwitz, surface too. Throughout runs a folk tale from the Pohorje hills his mother told him, about a hero who climbs a nameless tree into another world.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

285 pages in the original

Genres

War, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia

First published

2008 by Modrijan

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9789612411947 (original)

9781628970548 (Dalkey Archive Press, United States)

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